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#11 (permalink)

07-20-2006

Glenn Arndt

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Woops! Use $@ instead of $1.

Code:

#!/bin/ksh
myfilepattern=$@
integer filecount=0
for file in $myfilepattern; do
  filecount=$filecount+1
done

if (( $filecount == 20 )); then
  exit 0
else
  exit 1
fi